Session: Mutualism And Facilitation III (97th ESA Annual Meeting (August 5 -- 10, 2012))

1:30 PM

COS 66-1

Volatile emissions from an epiphytic fungus are semiochemicals for eusocial wasps
T. Seth Davis, Colorado State University; Kyria Boundy-Mills, UC Davis; Peter J. Landolt, USDA

1:50 PM

COS 66-2

Turnover in the ectomyccorhizal fungal community along a soil age gradient
Holly V. Moeller, Stanford University; Kabir Peay, Stanford University; Tadashi Fukami, Stanford University

2:10 PM

COS 66-3

Consequences of ant thermal tolerance and dominance hierarchies for an ant-plant mutualism
Ginny M. Fitzpatrick, University of Arizona; Michele C. Lanan, University of Arizona; Judith Bronstein, University of Arizona

2:30 PM

COS 66-4

Interacting symbioses: Leaf endophyte load and fungal garden development in leaf-cutting ants
Sunshine A. Van Bael, Tulane University; William T. Wcislo, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; Stephen A. Rehner, USDA-ARS

2:50 PM

COS 66-5

The effects of nitrogen and phosphorus additions on the mutualisms between plants, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, and rhizobia bacteria
Anna Larimer, Indiana University; Keith Clay, Indiana University; James D. Bever, Indiana University

3:10 PM

COS 66-

Break

3:20 PM

COS 66-6

Experimental warming across a natural climate gradient reverses soil nutrient effects on arbuscular mycorrhizal abundance in prairie plants
Hannah E. Wilson, University of Oregon; Bart R. Johnson, University of Oregon; Rebecca C. Mueller, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Laurel Pfeifer-Meister, University of Oregon; Timothy E. Tomaszewski, University of Oregon; Brendan J.M. Bohannan, University of Oregon; Scott D. Bridgham, University of Oregon

3:40 PM

COS 66-7

Chromosome amplification and the phenomenon of overcompensation in plants
Ken N. Paige, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign; Daniel R. Scholes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Madhura H. Siddappaji, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

4:00 PM

COS 66-8

A field evaluation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal colonization in split plots of conventional and genetically modified Bt maize
Tanya E. Cheeke, Portland State University; James D. Bever, Indiana University; Mitchell B. Cruzan, Portland State University; Todd N. Rosenstiel, Portland State University

4:20 PM

COS 66-9

Endopolyploidy and fitness compensation following herbivory in globally-distributed ecotypes and cell-cycle mutant lines
Daniel R. Scholes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ken N. Paige, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

4:40 PM

COS 66-10

Ectomycorrhizal fungal community response to a water availability gradient
Sonya R. Erlandson, University of Minnesota; J.A. Savage, University of Minnesota; Jeannine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota; Kabir Peay, Stanford University

COS 66 - Mutualism And Facilitation III